S.T.A.R. is a government agency tasked with dealing with super-types. Agent Washington and Cockroach have been in this room many times before. See, Washington thinks that Cockroach is bigger threat than S.T.A.R.’s higher-ups believe, and is constantly submitting requests for him to be put in higher-level containment. But he never is, so he escapes, and becomes a thorn in Washington’s side once again.